entification

Noun

1. The action of giving objective existence to something
   • Entification begins at arm's length; the points of condensation in the primordial conceptual scheme are things glimpsed, not glimpses. - 1960, Willard Van Orman Quine, Word and Object:
   • Where, therefore, are we to locate the mediating element... which is the conflict-free sphere, which thus becomes the mythical locus of the most incredible reaction entifications? - 1993, Jacques Lacan, translated by...